Humility

“A person's a person, no matter how small”

“Baseball always has been and always will be a game demanding team play. You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don't play together the club won't be worth a dime”

“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater”

“Excuse my dust”

“For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery”

“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs”

“Get over yourself! 'Cause it's not about you, man”

“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you”

“He knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know”

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened”

“How Could I Feel Like a Hero When Only Five Men in My Platoon of 45 Survived?”

“I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it”

“I don't give advice; I give opinions”

“I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member”

“I exist as I am, that is enough”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”

“If you've been in the game 30 minutes and you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy”

“In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were their rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves.'”

“It is hard to be brave when you're only a Very Small Animal”

“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent”

“Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it”

“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens”

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply”

“Nature to be commanded must be obeyed”

“Strong people always have strong weaknesses too”

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool”

“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom”

“The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself”

“They also serve who only stand and wait”

“Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that”

“To err is human, to forgive, divine”

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect”

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special”

“Well, nobody's perfect”

“when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it”

“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them”

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast”

“You're gonna need a bigger boat”